Jan Niggemann
Teamleiter CAD CAM Integration
Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Niggemann is a pragmatic technology leader with 14 years of experience who currently heads CAD/CAM integration and previously led ERP and business applications at Karl Marbach, driving IT consolidation, SCRUM adoption and measurable cost reductions. He excels at connecting people, processes and systems to simplify workflows—speeding execution and reducing errors—while bridging functional and technical teams from requirements through delivery. A hands-on project manager and ERP analyst by background, he has led enterprise ERP rollouts, vendor integrations and license management initiatives across manufacturing and automotive contexts. Active in open source since the late 1990s, he contributed substantive documentation improvements to the well-known restic backup project, highlighting a blend of practical sysadmin knowledge and clear technical communication. Based in Heilbronn, Germany, he brings an uncommon mix of medical informatics training and deep operational IT experience to optimize complex engineering environments.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Medical informatics, Medical informatics at Hochschule Heilbronn - Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und InformatikMedical informatics, Medical informatics at Heidelberg University
French, English, German
Github Skills (5)
documentation10
bash5
docker4
dockers4
sftp4
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
restic/restic
Sep 2017 - Feb 2021
Fast, secure, efficient backup program
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the project by enhancing the documentation. Their commits added information on metadata handling, IO and CPU prioritization, special item handling, Docker container usage, and bash completion paths. Moreover, the user refactored the documentation and reorganized its structure, improving the project's user guide and FAQ sections.
securededuperesticdeduplicationsecure-by-default
jniggemann/filebrowser-css
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
Custom stylesheet for filebrowser that adds colors and changes icons
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 4 months
stylesheetfilebrowsericonschanges
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